LDS sister missionary called to serve in the Adriatic South Mission.

Month: September 2015

Hey there beautiful people. Today was a wonderful day! We went to Apalonia, where PAUL taught. Now i can say that I have walked where that great apostle walked.. made me think of one of my favorite talks by president monson, ponder the path at thy feet, in which he talks about a woman who visited Jerusalem and awed at the fact that she was walking on the very places the savior may have touched and walked himself… and President Monson talks about how it is far more important to not walk where he walked, but HOW he walked. I thought of this as i was up on this mountain of Apalonia… thinking wowza this is where PAUL was. An incredibly powerful teacher, one of the greatest missionaries of ALL TIME…. And I was incredibly humbled to be there and to realize that this time as a missionary, that I have already passed and the 2 weeks that I still have… this is the time to walk LIKE Paul walked, a man of God who worked miracles in the name of our Lord and Savior. I want to do that.

I know miracles are real. I have seen them. Many. Large, as well as small. He is everywhere. And we are His tools. How wonderful, how humbling that the Lord trusts 18 and 19 yr old punk kids to preach the most important thing the human race could possibly hear? I will never be able to express adequately the gratitude within my heart for the chance I have to be a missionary. There is truly nothing more great that I have ever done in my life. And I relish this time that I still have to be a full time, preaching teaching messenger and representative of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Funsies:

1 stake conference in tirana yesterday, our bus broke down thrice, and we got stopped by the police once, and it was wonderful to see the majority of the RC’s there! woot woot

2 I have learned to make many albanian foods this week, the RS is determined to make me an albanian chef before I head back to the land of McDonalds.. haha

This week was marvelous, the best thing being when TEFTA girl got baptized! She is absolutely wonderful and just such a decided woman who knows what she wants, and what the Lord needs her to do, and she just does it. So refreshing 🙂

Kinda fun, because this was the first baptism not in an actually built in font, because our branch is smaller… it was in one of the blow up ones, and it was the funniest things seeing her and the Elder baptizing her getting in and out of that thing. Needless to say it was a group effort, and it was hilarious. But this week we just saw so many miracles, most of them connected to Tefta. She is just such a dedicated member, of about 24 hours. Already being a missionary to her entire neighborhood, so there are lots of potential investigators that we will be meeting with this week! Oh man… I love Tefta.

Also today for pday we were going to go on a wild adventure, but it has been postponed till next week… so yes. So instead I downloaded some mormon messages and we watched them today. This one I watched called origins was absolutely amazing and I pray that each of you will watch it! Did my eyes shed some tears when I watched it? Maybe.. Why yes, yes they did.

If any of you lack wisdom, let (them) ask of God.

And He will show you the truth. For He is the way, the Truth and the Light.